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Message-Id: <20230818122440.e48c3ec75a594e67df13292c@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:24:40 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
Cc:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        songmuchun@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] mm/filemap: remove hugetlb special casing in
 filemap.c

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:54:24 -0700 Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com> wrote:

> yes, the motivation for this patch came from the discussion about the 
> various places in mm where hugetlb is special cased and how there should 
> be an effort to unify these cases. As Matthew mentions, this series gets 
> rid of branches that would occur on every page cache lookup. 

Thanks.  Could we please get all this spelled out in the changelog?

Probably in a few days, give people time to review the patch itself.

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